Landrum C. Ezell (born May 16, 1843) of Spartanburg, South Carolina, enlists in the Cowpens Guards, 9th S.C. Regiment. Ezell is a Baptist preacher, and in the coming months and years he rises to the rank of sergeant, experiences minor war wounds, and fights in the battles of Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines’ Mill, Frazer’s Farm,…
In the state of Missouri, loyalties are divided. While the state remains with the Union during the war, some citizens fight for the Confederacy. Baptists comprise some of the older and more prominent families in Greene County during the war years. Some Baptist men fight for the South, and others for the North. But not…
Thaddeus Sobieski Coulincourt Lowe (August 20, 1832 – January 16, 1913) – otherwise known as Professor Lowe – uses his flying balloon to spy on Confederate camps near Fairfax, Virginia. Union calvarymen are dispatched to locate the Confederates, but come up empty-handed. Lowe is a pioneering aeronaut, scientist and inventor. In July U.S. President Abraham…